I believe that one person can make a difference.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Fear is real, but so is love.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Things do not change; we change.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.